Your Halton Gold Buyer

True North Gold Buyer Ltd., based in Barrie, we are your silver, platinum and gold buyer for Milton, Halton Hills, Georgetown, Burlington, Oakville and Canada wide. We offer top prices for your old gold, silver or platinum containing items and jewellery, such as rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, watches, coins, bars, silverware, crucibles, thermocouples or dental gold.

We pay top dollar for your precious metals containing material. As a part of our 100% satisfaction guarantee we will beat any other online silver, platinum or gold buyers offer for your jewellery, coins or scrap metal in the unlikely event that somebody will offer you a higher payout. You will see that a lot of our competitors only pay a fraction of your metals value, if you add up the numbers and to hide the fact, many of them do not even give you any up to date pricing until you have actually send your material in and would have to go to some hassle to get it back if you do not like their payout.

We put transparency and customer satisfaction first and therefore offer you a Payout Estimator that will give you a close estimation of what your payout is going to be – based on live precious metals market values. The only thing you need to know is the karat / precious metal content of your coins, jewellery or scrap metal and the weight – our estimator will do the rest. For detailed instructions on how to prepare your items for shipping & how to use the Payout Estimator please refer to our "How it works" section.

At True North Gold Buyer our main goal is to have satisfied, repeat customers – not one time deals taking advantage of customers that will never come back. We want to set us apart from the other known gold buyers and their bad reputation.

For your convenience, below you will find a list of Kawartha Lakes Communities and towns areas we service. Our service is not limited to these areas. We will buy your precious metals all across Halton, Central Ontario and Canada.

EXAMPLE OF ITEMS WE BUY

We at True North Gold Buyer Ltd., the gold, silver & platinum buyer of your choice, offer you top prices for your old or unwanted coins. Below you will find further information on silver containing coins of the Canadian Dollar we buy. If you cannot find your coin below or have a coin that you cannot identify please write us an email via our Contact Form or call us at (705) 302 1055 to obtain an estimate. Please keep in mind that we may not be able to provide you with an accurate estimate until we have seen the coin. We will gladly buy any other silver coin or precious metal bullion you may wish to sell.

Canadian Dollar Coins containing Silver 1$, 50¢, 25¢, 10¢

In the table below you will find a list of coins of the Canadian Dollar that contain silver. It is is a summary of important information of the History section.

Years

Coin Weight

Compo­sition

Add. Info

1$ Canadian Silver Coin (Voyageur)

1953-1967

23.33g

80% Silver, 20% Copper

Obverse: Elizabeth II

1935-1952

23.33g

80% Silver, 20% Copper

Obverse: George V, ?????? George VI

before 1935

-

92.5% Silver

First trials in 1911

Canadian Silver Coin (half-dollar); Reverse: Coat of Arms of Canada

1937-1967

11.66g

80% Silver

-

1920-1936

11.62g

80% Silver

-

1870-1919

11.62g

92.5% Silver

Obverse: Edward VII,

25¢ Canadian Silver Coin (quarter)

1953-1967

5.83g

80% Silver, 7,5% Copper

-

1920-1952

5.83g

80% Silver, 20% Coppper

-

1910-1919

5.83g

92.5% Silver

-

1870-1910

5.81g

92.5% Silver

-

10¢ Canadian Silver Coin (dime)

1920-1966

2.33g

80% Silver, 20% Copper

-

1910-1919

2.33g

92.5% Silver

-

1858-1910

2.32g

92.5% Silver

-

History

Beginning in 1858, the Province of Canada began issuing decimal coins, based on the value of the American dollar, due to an influx of American silver; by 1870, the rest of Canada (including Newfoundland, not yet a province) had followed.

Canadian coins were originally issued in bronze (1¢, Nova Scotia 0.5¢ in 1861-64) and silver (in 5¢, 10¢, and 20¢ denominations), all legal tender across Canada with Confederation.

Beginning in 1870, the penny disappeared (reappearing in 1876), the quarter supplanted the 20¢, and a 50¢ silver coin was added. The designs were standardized with the head of Queen Victoria on the obverse, value and date with a crowned maple wreath reverse (except the penny, which had a maple vine circlet). Edward VII supplanted Victoria on her death, followed by George V in 1911.

The cent became smaller in 1920, and in 1922, copying an earlier change in the United States, the 5¢ coin was enlarged and changed to nickel; unlike the United States, pure nickel was used except during World War II and the Korean War, due to nickel shortages. A silver dollar coin similar to that issued in the United States was first proposed in 1911 and a few trial pieces exist, but a proper dollar coin did not arrive until 1935, celebrating George V's silver jubilee. It was retained with new coinages every year (except 1939-44) until 1967.

For 1937, on the ascension of George VI, all-new designs appeared, with the sovereign's head on the obverse, which persist (changed only by the switch to Elizabeth II in 1953 and a new draped bust in 1965) to this day: the penny with two maple leaves, the 5¢ beaver, the 10¢ schooner (commonly believed to be Bluenose, she is in fact a composite), the quarter a caribou head, Canada's coat of arms on the 50¢, and two voyageurs in a canoe on the $1. The percentage of silver in silver coins was reduced in 1920 from 92.5% to 80%, and to 50% in 1967, when production of dollar and half-dollar coins for circulation was stopped. In 1968, the dime and quarter changed to 50% silver, while in August, all were replaced by pure nickel ones of the same size or (in the case of the 50¢ and $1) nearly so. The rising price of nickel eventually forced the 5¢ coin (commonly called the "nickel") to be changed to cupro-nickel in 1982.

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Areas we serve

True North Gold Buyer Ltd. is a 100% Canadian owned and operated Company. Are you looking to sell silver, gold and platinum? We hope to be the platinum, silver & gold dealer of your choice in all of the following Canadian areas.